Walking sulky-cultivator.



. No. 662,!95. Patented Nov. 20, v|900. J. JELEN.

WALKING SULKY CULTIVATOB.

(Application led Agg. 8, 1900.) (No Model.) 2 shuts-sheet l.

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J. JELEN.

WALKING SULKY CULTIVATOR.

(Application led Aug. 3, 1900.)

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litten STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOSEF JELEN, OF NORFOLK, NEBRASKA.

WALKING SULKY-CULTIVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,195, dated November20, 19.

Application led August 3, 1900. serial No. 25,813. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, JOSEF JELEN, a citizen of the United States, residingat Norfolk, in the county of Madison and State of Nebraska, haveinvented ai new and useful lValking Sulky-Oultivator, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention is an improved walkingsulkycultivator, the object of rnyinvention being to provide an ecient walking sulky-cultivator which isadapted for the lateral adjustinent of the plow-beams, whereby thecultivating-shovels may be caused to operate at any desired distanceapart, according to the width between the rows, and whereby the shovelsmay be set at any desired angle and raised and lowered as may berequired.

My invention consists in the peculiar construction and combination ofdevices hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a walkingsulky-cultivator embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a detailperspective view of the connections between a pair of the plow-beams.Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of one section of said connec- Fig. 3% is adetail perspective view of another section of said connections. Fig. 4is a side elevation. Fig. 5 is a vertical transverse sectional viewtaken on the line 3 3 of Fig. a.

The axle 1 is of the form shown in Fig. 5, provided with the arches 2,which are open at their lower side, the intermediate portion 3 betweenthe arches, and the angled portions 4 at the outer sides of the arches.Saidintermediate and angled portions of the axle are provided withopenings 5, adapted to receive the front ends of the clevises attachedto the front end of the plow-beam, and bolts 6 are vertically disposedcentrally in said openings and adapted to extend through the front endsof said clevises, and thereby secure the front ends of the plow-beams insaid openings 5. U-shaped coupling-bolts 7 are further provided, whichare attached to the axle at the sides of the arches and at the lowersides thereof, as shown in Fig. 5, said couplingbolts also serving forthe attachment of the clevises of the plow-beams to the axle, and henceby securing the clevises of the plowbeams either to the saidcoupling-bolts7 or the coupling-bolts 6 the plow-beams may be spaced atany desired distance apart, as will be readily understood.Supporting-wheels S are journaled on the spindles of the axle in theusual manner.

A pair of draft-tongues 9 are attached at their rear ends on theuppersides of the arches 2 of the axle, as at 10, and a rock-shaft 11 istransversely disposed on the said drafttongues and journaled in bearings12, which are bolted on said tongues, as shown. Rockarms 13 projectupwardly from said rock-shaft 11 near the ends thereof, and Jock-arms 14project downwardly from said rock-shaft near the center thereof. 1

Doubletrees 15 are pivotally connected to the draft-tongues, as at 16,without the centers of said doubletrees,the latter being longer ontheirinner sides between the draft-tongues than they are on the outersides thereof, and the inner ends of said doublet-rees are connectedtogether by a link 17, which serves also for the attachment of asingletree for the draft-animal to walk between the rows, the outer endsof the said doubletrees being provided with the usual clip-bolts 18 forthe draftanimals on the outer sides ofthe tongues. The doubletrees beingpivoted out at their centers serve to equalize the draft, as will bereadily understood. Brace-rods 19 connect the drafttongues with theaxle, as shown.

A trail-bar 22 is bolted at its front ends to the depressed centralportion of the axle and extends rearwardly and downwardly therefrom,said trail-bar being forked or bifurcated at its rear end, as at 23, andprovided with bearings 24 for a trail-wheel 25, which is jonrnaledtherein and which supports the axle in an upright position and preventsthe same from tilting or inclining, as will be readily understood.

The plow-beams 2O 21 are arranged in pairs and provided at their frontends with the clevises 26, which serve to att-ach the plowbeams eitherto the bolts 6 or the bolts 7 at the required lateral adjustments on theaxle, as hereinbefore stated, the said plow-beams having their frontends attached between the rear extending arms of the clevises by thepivotal bolts 27. Beams 21 are provided at their rear ends withsegment-plates 28, on

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which are fulcrun'ied hand-levers 29, as at 3, the lower ends of saidhand-levers being connected to the rock-arms 14 by means of cords orrods '31. Said hand-levers are provided with spring-pressed pivotedkeepers 32, which are adapted to engage thel notched edges of thesegment-plates, and thereby secure said hand-levers at any desiredadjustment. Said plow-beams 21 and also the 'plow-beams 2O are connectedto the rock-arms 13 by means of cords or links 33.

Each plow-beam 2O 21 is provided with a4 vertically-extending arm 34 ata suitable distance from its rear end, horizontally-disposed arms 35being secured to the upper ends of said vertical arms 34 and extendingtoward each other in pairs, as shown. One of the arms 35 is providedwith a pivotal opening 36 and a curved slot 37,which is concentrictherewith, and the other arm 35 of each pair is provided with bolt-holes38, two or more. A linkplate 39 is provided at one end with alongitudinal slot 40, and its opposite end is bifurcated horizontally toform an open slot 41. Bolts 42 in the adj Listing-slots 40 and in theopenings 38 iu one of the arms 35 secure said link-plates adjustably onsaid arms and are connected to the opposite arm of the respective pairsby means of pivotal bolts 43 in the pivotal openings 36 andadjusting-bolts 44 in the curved slots 37.

It will be understood from the foregoing and from the drawings, moreespecially by reference to Figs, l and 2 of the drawings, that the arms34 35 and link-plates 39 serve as connections between the pairs ofplowbeams, whereby the latter may have the spaces between their rearends widened or narrowed, as may be required, to the end that thecultivating-shovels attached to said beams may be adjusted laterally.

On opposite sides of each plow-beam are plow-standards 45, the upperends of which are pivotally connected to the plow-beams by means of thebolts 46, whereby the standards are adapted to be adjusted to anydesired inclination, and said standards are further connected to theplow-beams and supported at any desired inclination 'by means ofbracelinks 47, each of which comprises the section 48, pivotally boltedto the standard, as at 49, and the section 50, pivotally connected by abolt 5l with the section 48 and provided with the longitudinaladjusting-slot 52, in which operates a bolt 53, that serves to securesaid section 50 to the plow-beam and to permit the adjustment thereof,and hence permit the plow-standards to be adjusted and securely bracedat any desired angle. Shovel-plows or other suitable cultivatingattachments 54 may be secured to the standards 45 in the usual manner.To the inner side of each plow-beam, at a suitable dist-ance from thefront end thereof, is secured a wing 55 by means of a bolt, as at 56,the function of said wing being to fend or guard the young plants frombeing covered by the loose soil thrown up by the cultivating-shovels.The plowbeams 2O 21, beingconnected together in pairs, as hereinbeforedescribed, it follows that they are adapted to be lowered and raised inunison, this raising and lowering of the plowbeams being accomplished bymeans of the levers 29, rock-arms 13 14, and cords or rods 31 33, whichserve to connect said levers and said plow-beams to the said rock-arms.

The inner sides of the link-sections 50, which contact with the sides ofthe plowbeains, are roughened` or corrugated, as at 57, and therebyadapted to bite into the sides of the plow-beams when the bolts 53 aretightened, and hence strengthen the connection between saidlink-sections and the plow-beams.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a sulky-cultivator,the combination of asupporting-frarne, a rock-shaft thereon havingoppositely-extending rock-arms, plowbeams, adjusting-levers on saidplow-beams and connections between said levers and said plow-beams andsaid oppositely-extending rock-arms, for the purpose set forth,substantially as described.

2. In a sulky-cultivator, the pairs of plowbeamshaving the verticallyand inwardly eX- tending arms, in combination with the linkplates,adjustably secured to one of said inwardly-extending arms and pivotallysecured to the other, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the plow-beams, the vertical arms projecting fromthe upper side thereof, the horizontally-disposed inwardlyextending armsat the upper end of said vertical arms,aud link-plates adj ustablysecured to one of said horizontally-disposed arms and pivoted to theother, substantially as described.

4. The combination ot' the plow-beams having the inward-extending arms,one of which has the pivotal opening 36 and the concentric slot 37, theslotted link-plate secured to one of said arms by bolts in said slots,said linkplate having a pivotal bolt at one end in the pivotal opening36 of the other arm and further provided with an adj Listing-bolt insaid concentric slot 37, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afxed mysignature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEF JELEN.

Witnesses:

JAKE KoENIGsTEIN, S. L. GARDNER.

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